by Thinus Ferreira
The SABC is warning about yet another fake TV Licence email that is circulating and trying to steal people's money, with the South African public broadcaster saying it will never threaten anyone with a warrant of arrest.
The first fake SABC TV Licence spam email for 2024 tries to trick people into downloading a "statement" file through a phishing attack, threatening people that a warrant for their arrest will be issued and that they need to pay the amount on the statement.
A whopping 87% of South African TV households on the SABC's TV Licence register no longer bother to pay their annual SABC TV Licence fee of R265, with the South African government and the department of communications and digital technologies that have been stalling for years to get rid of it and to replace it with a better system.
The SABC in a statement is now warning the public again about the latest scam TV Licence email, saying that the "email correspondence purports to be that of the SABC, threatening the public that they will be issued with a warrant of arrest for non-payment of TV Licence fees".
"The public is advised to ignore the contents of a correspondence coming from an email address jjim@mega.* [TV Licence board]. This is not an SABC email address and the corporation will at no point threaten anyone with a warrant of arrest."
The SABC warns the public "not to download any statement from this fake email as instructed" and says the SABC TV Licence division can be reached by calling 011 330 9555 or the email of tvlic.info@sabc.co.za or get statements at www.tvlic.co.za which is the legitimate website.
